Stupid or Genius? A Game Played Entirely in Your URL Bar

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Hey there, gamer face! Played any great games lately that pushed the medium to a new level? While getting lost in a three dimensional virtual world amongst increasingly thoughtful plot and character development may be an adequate pastime for some, the only new title the gaming world should be talking about is URL Hunter, an experimental keyboard-character based game played entirely in your browser’s URL bar.

Through a nifty trick of programming, the game pits you as a capital O which you control with arrow keys in a one-dimensional pursuit of lower-case a’s that you gobble up with a press of the space bar. A 30-second countdown clock is included in the bar lets you know how much time you have for intervowel carnage.

Okay, so Black Ops it’s not. In fact, this self-described “ridiculous” project was developed over the course of one evening. As you might suspect, URL Hunter is enjoyable for exactly three plays before it gets old. But it is a unique bit of code kanoodling that other web developers might use to add a new dimension to web browsing.